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(noun) - During the 1939-45 war, many thousands of old envelopes were renovated for re-use by government departments. Several prisons made contributions in this work, and the "envelope party" generally comprised the very old and the infirm men. At Wormwood Scrubs, after the war, a party of elderly and crippled men was still employed on this work. At "tally time," they were first off the mark with the prison officers' cry of "Lead on, Envelopes!" --Paul Tempest's Lag's Lexicon: A Dictionary of the English Prison, 1950
April 23, 2018